3D Scene Viewer – New Snapshot Functionality
A majority of our customers have quickly embraced C Tech Web Scenes (.CTWS files) as their primary 3D deliverable to their clients. We are happy to announce new functionality for your clients – the ability to save high quality imagery directly from the 3D Scene Viewer. This was implemented based on customer feedback and feature requests.This is now live on https://viewer.ctech.com, as well as within any hosted web viewers and custom branded landing pages.As of Version 2022.3.4, the Scene Editor in the Table of Contents now has a button...
read moreImportant Pricing Update for C Tech Software
I am writing to notify all customers of new pricing for most of our products. It has been three years since our last price increase and during that time we have accelerated development efforts in all areas. Where Covid-19 (and its variants) have taken a toll on many businesses, we have found that our customers are doing considerably more modeling on a per-user basis, and with that work, we have seen dramatic increases in technical support workload. Most of our users are well aware of the advances to our 3D Scene Viewer technology and we work...
read moreEarth Volumetric Studio 2021.12.2
I am pleased to announce the release of Earth Volumetric Studio 2021.12.2. This major release adds significant new functionality and fixes many user-reported bugs.We now recommend this release as an upgrade for all users.This release includes updated help including several tutorials that span: The new EVS Environment Module renaming and port color changes Changes and enhancements to module function icons Creation and use of C Tech Web Scenes (CTWS files) We acknowledge that the help tutorials are not a replacement for the Premium training...
read moreEarth Volumetric Studio 2021.10 RC
I am pleased to announce the release of Earth Volumetric Studio 2021.10 Release Candidate. This major release adds significant new functionality and fixes many user-reported bugs.One of the major changes in 2021.10 was a complete rewrite of the module names. This was done based on feedback from many users via the new “C Tech Software Users” team. With the new module names, the entire help system and sample projects need to be rewritten.While the new release of EVS is ready for production use, we do not feel like we should release...
read moreVideo: New in EVS 2021.4.2
This 40 minute training video is free to everyone and will introduce some of the new (and required) changes to EVS 2021.4.2 and how to best use the C Tech Web Scene viewer. https://www.screencast.com/t/8ERATtExZbA
read moreEarth Volumetric Studio 2021.4.2
Earth Volumetric Studio 2021.4.2: The April 2021 release of EVS introduces support for C Tech Web Scenes. It also brings many improvements and bug fixes, and is a highly recommended upgrade for all users. Major improvements since the beta include: CTWS files created in 2021.4.2 now allow for interactive probing for coordinates (via double click or ctrl+click) on https://viewer.ctech.com. Objects in model with analytical data also show values. Objects in model with Stratigraphy or Lithology show the material or layer (cell set name) You can...
read moreThe End of Sketchfab and the Upcoming C Tech Web Viewer
Those of you who have been using Sketchfab to deliver 3D models to clients or for marketing on your websites have (or likely soon will) receive an email from Sketchfab regarding a newly implemented limit on the number of materials in a model:Their definition of a material differs drastically from any equivalent in your EVS models, and we have discovered that models in EVS with more than one datamap and/or multiple methods of coloring objects (e.g. object colors, RGB, etc.) are interpreted to have a very large...
read moreSurvey on potential EVS Web Viewer
We are asking for your participation in an important survey. Many of our customers have asked us for a better web based viewer for EVS models. We continue to work on this technology, but we now face some milestones that will determine the direction of our development and are requesting your input. Please take a few minutes to answer our survey questions: https://forms.gle/jTenHqmX1tgwiReP9 Responding fully to this survey will help guide the development of this new technology. Let us know what features matter to you and your company now, so we...
read moreEarth Volumetric Studio 2020.12
Earth Volumetric Studio 2020.12: The December 2020 release of EVS brings many improvements and bug fixes, and is a highly recommended upgrade for all users. Major improvements and fixes in this release include: Improvements throughout scripting system, including fixing issues related to hangs when scripting certain modules Improvements and bug fixes in mask_geology. In addition, this module now works better on the GPU and can provide a dramatic improvement in speed Fixes to load_evs_field which caused certain EFB files to not load properly...
read moreOnline Class on 3D DrillGuide™
C Tech will conduct an online class covering advanced application of 3D DrillGuide™. Our prior training materials on DrillGuide™ have exclusively used krig_2d. However, we have encountered several projects where 2D analysis did not serve us well.In this class we will cover: The Pros & Cons of 2D DrillGuide™ When should we consider 3D DrillGuide™ analysis vs. 2D? How the nature of the project data drives the need Characteristics of data files not well served in 2D This course will be offered one time only on Dec. 8th at 1:30 pm EST....
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